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Back cover of Huysmans' Against Nature (Oxford, tr. Mauldon): 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year — but I don't care a damn!' Roma sketchbook: a pencil reclining nude, Ovid's Latin on Daphne's transformation lettered around it, and an inked mustached portrait — 'is it possible that in Roma there can be no fantasy?' Self-portrait in a round mirror by the wooden door, camera at eye, in a black sweater with dreadlocks tied back Mac desktop tiled with video-chat screenshots — a classroom of students on the far end, the two callers picture-in-picture in each window Gustav Klimt's Medicine: Hygieia in red and gold at the base of a drifting column of entangled nude figures, a skull among them Cover of sketchbook 26: a thick black branching form like roots or veins inked over waxed book text crosshatched with shadows Sketchbook 46, 8 March at the Met: graphite and watercolor study of the Crouching Aphrodite marble, wine-red shadows at her hip, a rainbow of paint swatches down the page edge Tarot app spread on a wood table: The Hermit, King of Cups, Page of Wands reversed, Ace of Pentacles, The Devil below; to the right The World, The Empress and Hierophant reversed Game character model: a gaunt zombie-like man with skull-white face, arms outstretched in T-pose, black tattered body with white markings Child's pencil note on torn pink paper with a two-dollar bill pinned under it: here is a bracelet made by my mother and a two dollar bill my dad left — spend it wisely, Chad Roma sketchbook: a weeping face drawn in red pencil beside a Palazzo Barberini ticket dated 10/05/2006 and postcards of Canova's Pauline Borghese and Caravaggio's Narcissus Desktop wallpaper grid of cute forest-creature illustrations in greens and plums — deer, mushroom folk, a peacock — with Mac folders scattered over it Cover of sketchbook 32, light side: two panels of tan player-piano roll paper, the perforated note slots scattered like morse code, a red band between 3D-scanned portrait of the artists mother in blue-white on black: head wrapped in a scarf, face in profile, the shoulders dissolving into torn point-cloud lace Page titled Pi is Irrational: Niven's short proof set in white mathematical type on black, from the defined polynomial to the concluding contradiction Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite anatomy studies — a foot and lower leg, a hand resting on a shaded knee, and a seated nude's knees with a fist hanging over one of them Back cover of sketchbook 48: green and brown marbled paper over worn boards with dark leather corners and a red cloth spine A red 3d-printed extension worn over the middle finger of a brown hand with gold-painted nails and a gold ring; laptop keyboard and grey cat beyond Two frames from Ghibli's A Country Doctor–style animation: a boy leaping off a sea cliff, and sunflowers hanging over towering clouds, upside down Tiny pixel-art GIF of a dark-haired woman in a black top and red skirt, one arm raised — the classic animated dancing girl of the early web Roman mosaic labyrinth: a square meander maze ringed by a mosaic city wall with towers and gates, corner ornaments at the edges Nintendo DS with Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass split across its two screens, the Bride above and the Bachelor Apparatus below Journal spread: two torn notebook scraps with inked faces collaged over pencil writing, the profile at right labeled 'THE ACCUSER' Sketchbook 38 fold-out: aquarium jellyfish in sepia and violet wash pulsing across two panels, beside a dark rooftop against a pink dusk Five Mary Magdalenes with ointment jars side by side: a Flemish Renaissance portrait, a Northern engraving, Caravaggio's penitent Magdalene, a tearful nude leaning on a gold jar, and a hooded mourner in a landscape Intricate red paper-cut wall piece: a horned skull crowns a cascading tree of veins and drips sheltering small figures, birds, and a truck at its root Spolia-Style-SpiralStrut-Detail Comic panels of Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman: the pale girl in black, ankh at her throat, moving through a crowded street Sketchbook 42b: second charcoal study of the Belvedere Torso, seen from the front with the chest collapsing toward the cut thighs, a small profile sketched above iPod ebook page from Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid with highlighted lines: the goddess rose out of the depth and began the old story of how she was loved by a river Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis: the sea nymph kneels against the enthroned god's knee, one arm raised to his chin in supplication, an eagle at his side A dense strip of engraved sheet music in 12/8, marked 'mhm' at the start, black notes crowding the staff Spread of One Hundred Years of Solitude, pages 196–197, with 'Cease, cows, life is short' highlighted in yellow Folder of seven Hiroshi Sugimoto Seascapes thumbnails — Aegean Sea, Baltic Sea, Bodensee, Lake Superior, North Atlantic, Sea of Japan, Tyrrhenian — each a bare grey horizon of sea and sky Two clear printed head-bottles beside their signed label: 'Object #3 — Head of a Negress in the Form of a Plastic Vessel, 2018, Auriea XLVI. This head has been checked for leaks, but be careful.' Frans Floris, The Fall of the Rebel Angels: armored archangels with swords and shield drive a writhing avalanche of muscular demon bodies down out of the light Circular fountain basin ringed by thin jets of water catching evening light, dry grasses in the foreground Vooruit cinema screen from the balcony: 'Filmfestival Gent & Vooruit presenteren CLINT MANSELL & SONUS QUARTET' Two views of a glazed ceramic tile of a fawn: propped against an antique balance scale on a shelf, and held close-up in a hand Hands in red light hold a Book of Blessings open to the Order for the Blessing of Centers of Social Communication Metope's Scaffold tablet: symmetry axes, the six grid kinds with snap, the draw-shape modes, and the guide tools (ruler, compass, curve, poly, magnet). Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: cathedral vaults and rose windows swarming with lines — 'So I guess I'm graduating... at Riverside Church, Sat 15 May 93' Plain dark charcoal-grey square swatch A freshly pulled molar, roots and all, lying in an open palm; a gold ring on one finger Sketchbook 44, drawn over the printed page 'Chapitre Premier' of Feu et Flamme: a faint pencil portrait of a girl with tousled hair, one eye darkly shaded Daniel Lefcourt's The Invention of Public Relations: gold-painted nuggets, a slide projector and carousel, rulers, gloves, and archive photos knolled on grey Graphite study of the Borghese Gladiator's lunging leg and arm, annotated 'energy curve is inscribed on the body' Sketchbook 32: Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons sketched from the back in sanguine wash, the huddled figures knotted together Near-black Blender render of grandmother's kitchen — chair, table and cabinets barely emerging from darkness, a lamp gizmo above ('Kitchen.001') Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy

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